avlanmak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آولانمق (avlanmaḳ, “to be hunted, to be duped, to be suited to be used in hunting”),^[1] from Ottoman Turkish آولامق (avlamaḳ, “to hunt, to deceive, to dupe”), from Ottoman Turkish آو (av, “the chase, hunting of any kind, game, prey”), from Proto-Turkic *āb (“the act of hunting or that which is hunted”),^[2] morphologically av (“prey, game”) +‎ -le +‎ -n (“passive and reflexive suffix”) +‎ -mak. Cognates with Azerbaijani ovlanmaq.

• IPA^(key): /aβ.ɫanˈmak/
• Hyphenation: av‧lan‧mak

avlanmak (third-person singular simple present avlanır)

1. passive of avlamak
   1. (intransitive) To be hunted.
   2. (intransitive) To be deceived.
2. (intransitive) To go on a hunt, to go hunting, to search for prey.

   Synonym: ava çıkmak

   Aslan avlanırken canından oluyordu. ― The lion almost died while hunting.

   Çok ilginç avlanma tekniğine sahip 5 hayvan. ― 5 animals with very interesting methods of hunting.

   Gece avlanırken bir ışık kaynağına ihtiyacınız olacak. ― When you go hunting at night, you'll need a light source.

• “avlanmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “avlanmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “avlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 327